Pores all minute or indistinct, evenly distributed throughout annual ring.

Its grain records its past, ring by annual ring, and though the tree stops growing when it's cut, it doesn't stop developing and changing.

They warp less because the annual rings cross the board more evenly.

You can illustrate the annual rings and count the age of the tree.

One can tell the age of a tree by counting the number of annual rings.

There is no definite relation between the annual rings of growth and the amount of sapwood.

It had 52 annual rings and 50 or possibly 52 whorls of branches.

The annual rings of growth are for many years quite wide, but later they become narrower and narrower.

Ten thousand cyclists are taking part in the annual Ring of Kerry charity cycle today -among them Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

It was felled to procure a section for exhibition, and thus an opportunity was given to count its annual rings of growth.

So perfect are these petrifactions that the annual rings can be easily counted and even the grain of the wood is plainly visible.

Yellow pine flooring that is rift-sawn is more valuable than slash-sawn, because the edge of the annual rings makes a more even grain, Fig.